Tosin Odunaiya comes face-to-face with a Queen's Guard at the gates of Buckingham Palace on Friday evening

“The man said, ‘Oh, you’re a big boy now’, and the guard – who I think was Scottish judging by his accent – said, ‘Yes, I am a big boy.’

“Then the guard actually pushed the guy away.”

A spokesman for The Met told HuffPost UK an armed police officer attended and confirmed: “The man was given words of advice but there were no arrests.”

Meanwhile an MOD spokesman tells us: “We are aware of an incident outside Buckingham Palace on Friday and while no one came to any harm and there were no arrests, we are very clear that the Metropolitan Police lead on Royal Security arrangements including outside the Palace itself.”

The man, who was later identified as Tosin Odunaiya, told the Sun it was his fifth attempt to gain entry to the palace.